Search Results: 'Long Island Rail Road'

Tunnelling progress over the last three decades in China
29 December, 2023
While international tunnellers are aware of China’s many tunnel projects there is so much more to know. China can point to numerous project developments both built and under construction as well as technological innovations.

Bob Ibell – Interview
27 November, 2023
Bob Ibell is a known and respected name is tunnelling. He has had major roles on the Tyne and Wear Metro, Piccadilly Line Extension to Heathrow T4, the Channel Tunnel, the Jubilee Line Extension and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link’s (CTRL, or High Speed 1 (HS1)) London Tunnels. He is a Past Chair of the BTS, winner of the James Clark Medal, delivered the Sir Harold Harding Memorial lecture, taught construction management on the MSc course at the University of Warwick, and a founder member of the tunnelling consultancy London Bridge Associates (LBA). He spoke to Julian Champkin

Alison Norrish Interview
27 March, 2023
It is fun to go deep – but don’t do it. We can make our tunnels watertight – but should we? And what’s wrong with a few cracks in a tunnel wall anyway? Julian Champkin talked to Alison Norrish, urban tunneller extraordinaire, who challenges views on what makes good underground engineering